7 April 2019

For a couple of weeks now, Philip the garden pheasant has had two Philippas on the go. This morning, I caught him in flagrante delicto with one of them, deep among the lavender plants on our rockery. So perhaps we’ll be hearing the pitter-patter of tiny pheasant feet soon, neighbours’ abominable cats permitting.

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